cartoon by Allen Johnson; A proud looking young man carries books and wears a uniform labeled "ROTC" He walks along a university sidewalk. A disheveled looking man wearing sandals and long hair runs up to the uniformed man; he carries a board with...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of volunteer Beth More helping a local African-American girl fill out a form on the porch of a brick building during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...

From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of many men standing on the ground and on wooden scaffolds. Brick and other debris cover the ground. The men on the scaffold to the left are building a brick wall. In the background is a truck and a...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A donkey and an elephant wearing Hussar uniforms pass one another at a gate in front of the White House. The brick entrance is labeled "1600 Pennsylvania Ave." Beside the donkey...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Caucasian female Freedom School teacher meeting with her class on the front steps of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg. One of the women...

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a Caucasian female Freedom School teacher and male standing in front of a red brick building, probably one of the participating African-American...

From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A shivering Uncle Sam is outdoors in the snow at night, and the snow is labeled "Freeze movement." Uncle Sam is standing outside a brick building with a large window into the kitchen....

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Wayne Stayskal. There are four scenes in this cartoon, arranged vertically. In the first scene, two men carrying rifles are hiding against the ruins of a brick building with a sign that reads...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An apparently naked man labeled "N.O." wears a barrel labeled, "Homestead exemption" and a pair of shoes. He stands on a sidewalk next to a brick building that has a sign...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant and a donkey wearing suits stand near a brick wall looking up at windows set into the wall. Each carries a briefcase; the elephant's case is labeled "Returning...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing ammunition belts has an arm band labeled "Red Brigades." He carries a newspaper with the headine, "Police storm hideout, free Dozier." He is looking with a shocked...